Sentences with phrase «expanding ride sharing services»

Expanding the ride sharing services is tied to a number of other items that Cuomo and lawmakers hope to address, if a special session is held.

The governor and legislature failed to agree to expand ride sharing services, including Uber and Lyft, beyond New York City.

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Until now, it has always focused on the United States while Uber has expanded globally, often facing opposition from local ride - sharing services.

It's been expanding into a dizzying array of fields, including cloud computing, messaging, mobile, mapping, TV, ride - sharing, taxi services, media and crowd - funding.

Ford (f) also announced its intention to make self - driving cars for commercial ride - sharing or on - demand taxi services by 2021, a target the automaker says it will reach by expanding its Silicon Valley research lab, as well as investing in or buying autonomous vehicle technology startups.

Lyft has expanded its on - demand ride - hailing service to 54 new U.S. cities Thursday as it tries to push deeper into the Midwest, East, and Southern states and take market share away from rival Uber.

Uber, for instance, has exploited loopholes in laws written long before the digital era to ruthlessly expand both its ride - sharing and taxi services and its autonomous driving program.

written long before the digital era to ruthlessly expand both its ride - sharing and taxi services and its autonomous driving program.

Uber Technologies Inc., which unsuccessfully sought to expand ride - sharing services in upstate New York, spent $ 752,974, the report found.

His idea to expand Uber and Lyft to upstate — where they have never been approved by the Legislature — would end Buffalo's distinction as the nation's largest city without ride - sharing services.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the legislature failed to agree to expand ride - sharing services, including Uber and Lyft, beyond New York City.

That means that details remain elusive on the status of, among other things, expanding ride - hailing outside of New York City, offering free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for middle - class students, and requiring local governments to come up with shared services plans.

Expanding the ride - sharing services is tied to other items that Cuomo and lawmakers hope to address if a special session is held.

One day after Uber launched a lobbying effort to expand to upstate New York and Long Island, Cuomo said he's driving a proposal for a statewide system to allow the ride sharing services to bypass local licensing procedures.

The ride - share company Uber on Monday announced it had expanded its roster of upstate mayors supportive of allowing the app and similar services to operate outside of New York City

Josh Mohrer, the general manager of Uber NY, spoke at the state Capitol on Tuesday in favor of expanding the ride - sharing service into the Albany area.

Ride sharing services have stepped up their lobbying and ad campaigns, in hopes of winning approval to expand into upstate and on Long Island by the end of the year, including a $ 1 million campaign by Uber.

Although authorization to expand ride - sharing services in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester was granted in the state budget passed earlier this month, a provision added during closed - door negotiations allows large suburban counties to opt out.

In addition, Murphy wants to expand the base of the sales tax to include ride - sharing services and Airbnb stays to generate $ 67 million.

Talks to hold a special legislative session to approve a pay raise for legislators and expand ride - sharing services, including Uber and Lyft, upstate ended late - Friday night

The reason these ride sharing services are expanding so rapidly is because they offer lower cost, more convenient alternatives to your traditional taxi or yellow cab.

When it expands across the country, Ofo will find itself going up against the likes of ride - hailing giant Ola, as well as self - drive car rental firm Zoomcar, and Yulu, which was launched last November by InMobi co-founder Amit Gupta — all of which are experimenting with small - scale trials of bike - sharing services there.

Beyond the variety of use cases Concierge offers, the expanded service represents another means for Lyft to compete its battle with other ride - sharing services, like Uber.

And if ownership didn't suit their lifestyle, fine; the company was eager to expand into ride - sharing and autonomous fleet services.